Its time for new year resolutions!!!

I resolve to...!

...become a better woman. hahaha. HA.

Ten resolutions: 

I resolve to teach lester's parrot to perch on my shoulder!

I resolve to become a home investor!

I resolve to pull my GPA up to 4.3!

I resolve to write a book!

I resolve to bring my ISC rating up to 1200!

I resolve to never lose a Scrabble game in the IHG ever again!

I resolve to make time to hang out with my friends!

I resolve to memorize 3 piano scores by the end of this year!

I resolve to push off all sub/main comm posts in my final year!

I resolve to hate less, love more, heal more, and steer clear of hopeless idiots so as not to break my resolution. *forced grin*  

school starts on tuesday. yay~

and i'm back in school and living in hall, and god. the toilet stinks. both toilets. i don't know who it is, but i really didn't know that that much crap can ever come out of someone's bottom. its unbelievable. its like, the cow shit that u see along the roads in malaysia. now take that 2kg of black stuff and dump it on the other end of the squatting toilet. plus, a girl is supposed to have made that mess. gawd. what is she, a cow?

i should take a picture, its just that i'm afraid it would take me a few years to cleanse the evil aura from the camera. 

i just took one short walk down to the cubicle to observe the mess and back, and i'm feeling nauseous. i need to wash my eyes. i feel dirty all over. *starts cursing again*

i want to go hall 2 where there's a toilet connected to the room...!!!

First day of school! First day of hall life without lester (*sob*)!

My timetable for this semester is pretty screwed up; 3 days of 8.30am lessons, and there's 7 hours of seminars on Friday.

Its a good habit to sleep early and wake up early! The good thing is i can wake up in time to send lester a good morning message before he leaves for work! :)

This semester should be... ... ...pretty hectic as well. With a mock FYP, presentations and memo assignments almost every week, a year 3 subject and a law module, i look set for ultimate disaster. but i shall prevail! i need to reclaim back my second class honours one 0.1 GPA point at a time!

So i awoke at 7am this morning and went to class. At first i thought there's no one i knew in class, but thankfully jj from my hall was there. and i hit it off well with the rest of my groupmates; one of them was a pretty blogger and the other was a vietnamese.

and i spent the rest of the afternoon slacking off on isc and reading manga, and checking back blackboard in case any lecture notes were uploaded...

i feel like starting to study, but with no textbooks and no lecture notes, all this resolution has no where to go. *starts to do sit ups* 

Remember i had this 3rd year module? I went for it today. and...

Within 10 minutes all year twos had been strongly encouraged to drop. very strongly encouraged. its like, the first few things he asked was if there were any year twos around and if so, please drop the module.

reasons: you can't compete with the yr3's.
               the majority of yr2's get D,E,F, and the best you get is B-.
               you don't want to screw up your GPA.
               the yr3's are trying to get into this module.
               ....etc.

and then he asked us if we wanted to drop. twice. i politely said i'll think about it, while my kaki, joel said a resolute 'NO!'. after which was a lot of attacks on year twos in the course, like... when he was asking some people in class about their ambition, he gave us the chance to speak 'as a parting gift'. when someone's going to the toilet, he'll check if its a year 2, coz if so, 'no toilet for you, so u'd better get out soon!' when its break time, 'the year 2's can just take their bags, and don't need to come back le.' when he asked wat does weather derivatives entail, and someone beside us said 'agriculture', and a year 3 answered power industry, he said 'see? that's the kind of answer a year 2 comes up with.' even though it was another year 3 who answered wrongly. (to his credit i didn't know either. joel was quite indignant about it coz he knew the answer)

it all sounds evil and all, but i think he was just concerned about us. although i don't think my postponing it to year 3 would increase my chances of an A, so i'm sitting my butt there.

at the end of the lesson, joel stayed back to ask him some questions about straddles and options. i guess that got his approval since he demonstrated that he knew what he was talking about.

so he said "year 2 right? you can stay!" and to me he said "you're his friend? you can stay too!" (clever by association -_-) but he once again hammered into us that we need to study very very hard coz this course is not easy.

i'll work hard!!!!! he just fired me up!!!! rawrgh!!! we'll show him! :) 

i like this guy!

 

you know there are days when everything you do go wrong? when a day even feels remotely like a sucky day, just stop everything you're going to do, and go lie in bed or suck on a lollipop until you feel lucky. otherwise everything would go wrong. everything! schedules would fall behind, work would be undone and regression occurs, money would be spent for naught. basically, its a sucky day.

i've had a few sucky days in my history. they all feel just like today. first little things go wrong, and you feel this =premonition= of bad things to come. you ignore the feeling, and happily go on your way thinking: you'd beat the day!

and then something happens towards the end of the day undoing everything you'd done, and everything else goes downhill from there.

the cute korean tutor is married!!! *wails~*

like hell that's the reason. the day started off happily enough; i went off to tutorial feeling happy because its korean tutor day. the minute i stepped into class, i see the message "AB21X 10.30am class cancelled." we were a bunch of blur sotongs floating about aimlessly in the classroom waiting for 11am to come so we could leave. i felt a tinge of "hmmm... something's not right today"

but then the tutor rushed in, apologising for the lateness, made a racket over the anonymous message, introduced us to good korean food in singapore, and i felt a wee bit better.

my schedule was perfect. after korean tutor class I is a 2 hour break where i can print and send my flyers for photostating, then its the year 3 seminar. then i shall go to collect the flyers and finish distributing to 2 halls by tonight.

the flyer has to be changed, so i ran back to hall to ammend, after which there is no time to print. the seminar dragged, and by the time i could make it to the lab to print, i realized that hotmail screwed me up again and didn't send me my email.

so i called yy frantically to resend, and printed it out, and gave it to the friendly photocopying lady. then as i was walking back to hall it started raining.

so i wrapped the flyers with my camisole, and shielded it against the rain with my body and the umbrella, and the camisole wrapping unravelled halfway through. the umbrella and my body did their job diligently though.

and then it stopped raining after i reached hall -___-

and i spent 2 hours cutting up the flyers, 1 hour distributing, and... midway the chairperson screamed "The flyer's wrong~~~!!!"

and so on and so forth.

well~ the redeeming thing was that i only printed enough for 2 halls, instead of 6.

after everything, i didn't feel like sleeping, and i didn't feel like studying, and i didn't feel like being productive, and i didn't feel like being nice to myself, i went onto ISC and dropped my scrabble rating from a hard-earned 1080 to 1030.

les, if you happen to be reading this, i hope its before you went to check my playing history. i know it was a lot of sucky moves yesterday. its a sucky day. the redeeming fact is i realized what the correct move was right after i pressed enter. :)

bleh. well, at least the website is up. sigh. 

after a couple of gatherings over the past half year, and a lot of people commenting on how i've shrunk, and others commenting on how my bf looks sooo tall beside me, i decided to go get a pair of high platform shoes.

i can't wear high heels; i totter around like an old china lady in their 5-inch feet and i make obscene clacking sounds while going up and down steps and sometimes i walk and leave my shoe behind... but that's beside the point.

so we suddenly had this isetan voucher, and of i course i took the opportunity to go buy a good pair of platform shoes. i feel in love with it at first sight. its a high platform shoe that gives me an extra 7 cm, its fake-denim material, there's a strap around my ankles, i feel like i'm wearing running shoes. 

but i had no chance to wear it coz actually it looks overly formal.  but i still love it! so i kept it around in hall for the day when i'm wearing frilly flimsy cloths and skirt, and the day came. actually tomorrow. i've a wedding dinner to attend to, and i've got this white frilly camisole and long denim skirt and~

so i wore my favorite pair of shoes back from hall to home. and i forgot band aids coz its new shoes and there's a hell lot of friction, and basically after the first 15 minutes i've lost a big patch of skin.

i'm a person who can take pain. i revel in knowing how much i can withstand pain. i've had  thumbtacks implanted in my toes, hot water pouring on my hands, and all sorts of other mild grisly bloody things happening to me, and i didn't so much as flinch throughout them all (although i whined a lot)

so i managed to tough it out all the way through 8 hours of school and back to tampines and when i reached home and took off my beloved shoes...

i realized i bled all over my shoes... *cries* and i can't wash it off!!! *double cries* 

i'm sorry~~~~ i should have just taken it off sometime in between and put some tissue or something~~~

=stops acting like an airhead=

anyway~ kekeke. i'm doing a project on pornography. so i can legally access porn now. ( ^._.^ ) 

well, technically this is the third week of school, but I finally have the "school is starting and I'm in deep shit" feeling so reminscent of school life today.

School is starting and I'm in deep shit. woot.

First up, the project work has started! I changed my topic for law from soft pornography to privacy and regulation issues on internet investigation software: www.netdetective.com; coz there's another person working on online sex toys sales, which i think might be covering the same field as me; only more fun. >__<

well~ that was one "(o_O)", short romp of pre-research research.

Second up, i dropped by my tutor's place and apologised for my lack of progress in my website integration, and spent an hour observing him demo-code. i wouldn't say i have newfound respect for him, coz i've always respected him, but i must say programmers have a really cool aura around them when they're immersed in something. wham! 3 pages of code in an hour, i learned many things new, and i left with more stuff to do.

and there's the weekly 10-page chapter summary to hand in for derivatives, weekly tutorial presentation for equities (half of my group members quit the course o__O), and 4 more presentations and reports for Communication Management for the rest of the semester.

and professional attachment phase 1 has started, so its intensive resume-writing time as well. god, the companies i want are so popular i just HOPE i can get called in for an interview. =hope against hope=

oh, and i bought new specs; it'll be coming in next week :) 

i am invincible!!!

eight straight wins on ISC in two days, spotted a few mistakes that chief competitor yansen made, whatever tiles i wanted would hop into my hand. the guy i wished into my group got transferred in by the tutor, the food i want to eat is available, the weighing machine has good news for me. it rains when i go to sleep, and stops raining when i go out, and i wake up just in time for breakfast.

i am invincible!!!

one new year resolution down- ISC rating is 1240. nine more to go.

while everything is going well for me, i'd better transfer some of my good luck into my resume and pray that i get through the professional attachment phase one (20% chance of selection) 

Oh dear. 2 more weeks to Valentine's Day, and we are $400 away from our $500 budgeted sales. a bad feeling about this, I have. (>.<)

i need to work harderz!